How to decrease usage of Bandwidth?

[Nevil]

I would suggest that when you have to host videos host them off your site on services like Youtube, Vimeo, MyVideo and so on. You can implent the videos with a embedding code into your site.

[gaetanxd]

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Thanks to Zeboo for the source.

[Zeboo]

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Best,
Zeboo/Greg

[ddrjm]

Images take quite a lot of bandwith, try to save them if possible on a progressive format (like jpg, or if you have transparency on the image png) and compress as much as you can of the image without loosing too much quality. Gimp and Photoshop have the proper tools to do that

[Loxford]

You can compact your javascripts and images.
If you have access in the apache conf, you may active mod_gzip.
I'm sorry if my English is not good, i'm Brazilian and a long time ago I studied english.

[leilash]

I suggest you to use client side cache, if you are using CMS then most of CMSs have an option to activate this thing, so most of your website will be cached on your visitors machines so every time they visit your website they will not load all of your website content and by doing this you can decrease amount of used bandwidth a lot.

Another thing is to optimizing images, there are lots of softwares which do this and you should do the optimization first for images used in template of your website and then in the images you use in contents.

And in the end if you get lots of visitors you should get more bandwidth ! and there is no way to decrease used bandwidth below some certain limits.

[pr0x00]

you can also use dropbox, you can have 10Gbytes / day in bandwidth, they also have an API if you want automated upload or somethings like that

[situnrocks]

@Nevil agree with you.

Also use CSS instead of images when possible, Optimize the site with Google Tools (eg Page Speed).

Manually enable cache by pasteing it into your .htaccess file.
<filesmatch"\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$"=""> Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public" </filesmatch>

or use plugins.